Ángeles López de Ayala y Molero (21 September 1858 – 29 January 1926) was a Spanish playwright, narrator, journalist, and political activist, considered the leading feminist intellectual in that country in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Biography

Ángeles López de Ayala y Molero was born in

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, 21 September 1858. Her views were based on

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, feminism and

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ideologies. Along with the anarchist Teresa Claramunt and the spiritist

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, she co-founded the Sociedad Autónoma de Mujeres de Barcelona (1892), which was considered the first feminist organization in Spain; and the Sociedad Progresiva Femenina in 1898. A strong defender of women's rights, she affirmed that women need to emancipate themselves from the church and from male supremacy. She died

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, 29 January 1926.

Selected works

* ''Lo que conviene a un marido'', 1880. * ''Don Gonzalo de Córdoba'', 1880. * ''El triunfo de la virtud'', 1881. * ''Los terremotos de Andalucía o Justicia de Dios''. Madrid: Tip. Huérfanos, 1886 * ''Cuentos y cantares para los niños''. Madrid: José Matarredona, 1888. * ''De tal siembra tal cosecha''. Barcelona: Maucci, 1889. * ''Absurdos sociales'', Barcelona, 1899. * ''Primitivo'', 1900.

References

Spanish women writers 1926 deaths Spanish feminists 1858 births Spanish republicans Spanish dramatists and playwrights {{Spain-writer-stub